Kate Pontow

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Käte Pontow , also Käthe Pontow (born January 28, 1924 in Berlin, † 2016 in Hamburg) was a German actress and voice actress .

Life

Käte Pontow began her career on the stages of her hometown. Until 1944 she was engaged at the Kammerspiele of the German Theater Berlin . There she celebrated successes there in 1941 alongside Erich Ponto in the leading role in Erich Kästner's lifelong child , which Kästner had written under the pseudonym Robert Neuner . After the Second World War, she found a new artistic home in Hamburg. Along with Hilde Krahl , Edda Seippel and Hermann Schomberg, she belonged to the founding generation of Ida Ehres Hamburger Kammerspiele , where she played under directors such as Helmut Käutner . In 1955 Käte Pontow moved to Helmuth Gmelin's Theater im Zimmer .

In 1939 Käte Pontow made her feature film debut alongside Heinrich George and Jutta Freybe in Eduard von Borsody's sensational trial Casilla . In the following years she played next to Ilse Werner in Josef von Bákys Your First Experience , next to Theo Lingen in Hilfe, I am invisible , next to Willy Fritsch in Twelve Hearts for Charly , next to Siegfried Lowitz in the drama Traces of Traces in the Carl Zuckmayer film adaptation The happy vineyard , in Georg Thomalla's adaptation of Ralph Benatzky's Singspiel Beauberdes Fräulein and in Rudolf Jugert's rubble film Untitled . In the television series Ulrich and Ulrike with Matthias Fuchs in the lead role, she even played a continuous role with "Frau Dannemann".

In addition, Käte Pontow worked extensively as a speaker for radio plays and dubbing. For example, she spoke in various radio adaptations of the NWDR of Hans Adlers Meine niece Susanne the "Bathilde", which she embodied in the film version with Inge Meysel . As a voice actress she lent her voice internationally renowned theater colleagues such as Anouk Aimée in The Golden Salamander , Zsa Zsa Gabor in Moulin Rouge and Jane Wyman in Hitchcock's Stage Fright .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth information according to a statement by the HNA from May 17, 1952: Käte Pontow celebrates her birthday on January 28. She comes from Berlin. At the age of 15 she stood in front of the camera for the first time in the Heinrich George film Sensation Trial Casilla. According to the film portal, the film was shot between April and May 1939, making 1924 the year of birth.
  2. ^ Stefan Neuhaus: The secret work , Königshausen & Neumann 2000, p. 31.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Tukur / Ulrich Waller: Nothing but Theater: the history of the Hamburger Kammerspiele , Christians 2003, p. 9.
  4. ^ Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 563.
  5. ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme: Film lexicon of full-length German and German-language sound films after their German premieres , Klaus Archive 2006, p. 170.
personal data
SURNAME Pontow, Kate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pontow, Kathe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin